Selection boxes? Who buys 'em?

[schroeder]

Do you give selection boxes? Or is it only grannies?

Newberry of course.
I can remember spending ages cracking nuts at my grandparents then grimacing as I ate them!

Me and DS1 love dates though!

I could never crack the nut without smashing it to bits. One year we had figs and dates. The figs were gritty too.

You can still get those orange and lemon slices!

Where can I get 'em?

My Grandpa always buys that mixture of peanuts and dried fruit and I still eat the peanuts and expect them to be salty!

Those orange and lemon slices are in Tesco.

I always buy my boys (14 and 12) a selection box.

We have peanuts with raisins and chocolate chips. My mum used to buy those snacks that came in a plastic tray with compartments. Can't remember them all but there were fish shaped ones and pretzels.

Sorry OP i have gone off on a tangent thinking about my childhood Christmas snacks.

I love orange and lemon slices

Everyone in Ireland we love 'em.

I used to love getting a selection box. My friend's mum always bought me one, even when I was a teenager- I still enjoyed it :) If you only got shop bought chocolate bars as a rare treat, to get a selection box was such decadence- "You can select which of these chocolate bars you want to eat, then have another if you like!"

ooh i love fruit jellies, think they are called york fruits by terry's. We always had them. And a box of turkish delight at christmas.
Theres no accounting for taste!

Our neighbours used to buy us one every year when we were kids. I have never bought one myself, though.

But its chocolate, innit? It can never be a bad thing

^^

schroeder you can get orange and lemon slices at Tesco's.

I lurve them, so does ds1. So much so that the four boxes I bought in October have had to be replaced.

But Shodan they are sooo gritty!!

When I had my student house our neighbour used to buy us all one... Yes she was a granny!
My nanny used to buy them for us when we were little she was in her 20's at the time

Each year I buy them nice and early then have to replace them after raiding them when desperate.

And as for the PP who asked why??? Copious amounts of choc what's not to like!

I love the yorks fruit jellies!-poundland usually start selling them at this time of year too!

I am restaining myself from buying selection boxes as I always end up scoffing them-gone through 3 tins of roses in the past 2 weeks

I buy them for my dn. 1 selection box and a pair of pj's every year. I think I am their crap aunty

The neighbours always used get us one when we were kids. My mum's another one who does the 'give them £10 and some chocolate so they have something to open' thing for teenagers.

I might get myself an chocolate advent calender this year. I don't even have kids!

Sparklingbrook- not gritty! Covered in luvly sugar. What's not to love?

I bought some for my DCs stockings.
And some of those sherberty, sugary sweets from an old-fashioned sweetshop for their Christmas Eve Hamper.These will go in a cellophane bag with a ribbon and rationed otherwise the little monsters won't sleep

DS2 wants one of those Cadburys chocolate machines that dispenses the miniatures. I bought it then thought how much chocolate I could have got for £6.50.

Aw I wanted to get one of those dispensers for DD, you've just put me off!

They had an M and Ms dispenser in Asda this week. I bought one